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by JdeBP 3632 days ago
It didn't in fact apply to a sizeable portion of the pre-systemd world, either. systemd doco gives the quite false impression that this stuff is new, for "new-style daemons". Not using this boilerplate has been the right way to write daemons for many systems over the past quarter century, going back to the release of the IBM System Resource Controller at the beginning of the 1990s.